On Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:59:45 -0500
gatesphere <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 1/8/2014 6:01 PM, Terry Brown wrote:
> > branches (which I know are just tags)

> They are more than tags, less than forks.  They are *not* tags.  And a 
> deleted branch once merged into master has no real use -- the whole 
> branch's history is contained in the merge commit.

Just seems to me that the branch name is a useful label for that piece
of history, minimizing the time you have to spend thinking about what
was being merged.  So partly a convention of a succinct identification
of what was being merge on the first line of the merge commit message,
which is what most history visualizers are probably going to display,
would cover what I'm talking about.  But that seems more fragile than
just leaving the branch non-tag ;-) in place.

What I should do, duh, is see what merges look like in the repo on
github... hmm.  Ok, there isn't really a difference between them, the
`bzr qloq` view was seeming easier to follow for some reason.  Ha, but
not easier than the `qgit` viewer, so it's just a case of history
viewer preferences :)  Ok, getting to esoteric now :-)

Cheers -Terry

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